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...pardoned if we view the proceedings with a jaundiced eye, [but] remembering always that our neighbor has lost much more than money in fighting two wars that were ours as well as his own-even before we got into them. So we doff our hats and raise our voices in enthusiastic salute: "God Save the Queen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 29, 1953 | 6/29/1953 | See Source »

Toohy, a member of the University police force since 1935, has also been promoted to the rank of Captain, and will doff his uniform in favor of civilian clothes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Matthew Toohy Named Permanent Police Chief | 4/10/1953 | See Source »

Just before the Christmas vacation began, '27 paused to doff his hat to President Lowell on his 70th birthday. Lowell would need no monument to his administration. The tutorial program, intramural athletics, and the many new dormitories and classes were monuments enough to the President's residence at Harvard. Already, they were preparing to open the new business school across the river, and officials had announced that, because of affiliations with the Boston Public Library, it would be the largest business library in the world...

Author: By Michael Maccory, | Title: Athletic Rift with Nassau Marked Last Year for '27 | 6/18/1952 | See Source »

...screens for a while. He was off for a short tour as a reserve officer in the Navy, would take a refresher course at Pensacola, Fla. before doing a fortnight's tour of duty at General Eisenhower's headquarters in Europe. After that, said Godfrey, he would doff his commander's uniform and come back to his audience with some thoughts on world conditions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 22, 1951 | 1/22/1951 | See Source »

...campus Everett House at 53 Garden Street has been chosen as the Holiday residence. On December 25, even that dormitory will be deserted, as the ten concentrators doff eyeshades and scatter in all directions to split Christmas Day wish bones with friends...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Vacation Rest for 'Weary' Cliff grinds | 12/19/1947 | See Source »

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